Fixed contract for a specific work in the construction industry: fixing and developing the image of an special employment contract in the digital age

Abstract

The fixed contract for a specific work in the construction industry, a flagship of this sector, is a controversial figure in its nature, which represents, as perhaps few others, the clash between legal categorisation and the reality of the business and labour market, the latter backed, in principle, by the aim of protecting the worker. With antecedents in the Construction, Glass and Ceramics Ordinance of 1970 and anchored in the LSC and in the ET, among other regulations, it has been uninterruptedly dealt with at the state negotiating level, highlighting its questioned condition of modulation of the contract for a specific work or service, endorsed however by our Supreme Court, and the singular regime of duration of the contract. A legal treatment that leaves behind a trail of uncertainties, which, together with the pronouncements of the courts, are addressed in this study.